>These articles never ever bring up the long history of anti-intellectualism in the United States.
Pick any nation and it's the same. Intellectuals as a class catch a bad rap because of how many of them are useful idiots for whatever the oppressive and/or extractive systems in a society are at any one time.
Like crack open any page of the history book. Whether you're reading 1970s exclusionary zoning 1930s eugenics or 1850s "inferior negro" type crap you're reading about something that a large enough to be a problem fraction of educated white collar people saw fit to peddle at everyone else.
It's perfectly understandable that a decent enough to be noticeable subset of everyone else sees this questionable track record and writes off the whole lot.
Pick any nation and it's the same. Intellectuals as a class catch a bad rap because of how many of them are useful idiots for whatever the oppressive and/or extractive systems in a society are at any one time.
Like crack open any page of the history book. Whether you're reading 1970s exclusionary zoning 1930s eugenics or 1850s "inferior negro" type crap you're reading about something that a large enough to be a problem fraction of educated white collar people saw fit to peddle at everyone else.
It's perfectly understandable that a decent enough to be noticeable subset of everyone else sees this questionable track record and writes off the whole lot.